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T. apicata, of which raany spécimens were obtained may be 

 known at once by the flavous colour of the apex of the elytra, the 

 rugose head and extremely closely [)unctured thorax. 



Tricliona variabilis n. sp. 



Subquadrate-ovate, black, the antennse flavous, head thorax and 

 legs fulvous, elytra distinctly punctate-striate, black, an oblique 

 stripe near the suture and the apex broadly, fulvous. 



Var. a. fulvous, a spot at the base and a stripe at the raiddle of 

 the elytra, black. 



Var. h. Entirely fulvous without markings. 



Lenght 1-1 1/4 Une. 



Head entirely irapunctate, the eyes surrounded by a narrow 

 sulcus, clypeus separated from the face by a semicircular groove, 

 irapunctate, fulvous like the rest of the surface, palpi and antennae 

 flavous, the latter rather long and slender, the third and fourth 

 joints equal, the terminal one stained with piceous ; thorax trans- 

 verse, more than twice as broad as long, the sides rather strongly 

 rounded, narrowed in front with a narrow margin, the angles not 

 produced, but distinct, the anterior margin concave behind the 

 eyes, the surface fulvous, sparingly and finely punctured on the 

 dise, the sides finely longitudinally strigose, scutellum as broad as 

 long, black, elytra strongly punctate-striate, convex, scarcely 

 perceptibly depressed below the base, black, with an oblique short 

 band near the suture at the middle and the apex broadly triangu- 

 larly fulvous, this colour also extending upwards a little way at 

 the suture; breast and abdomen black, legs flavous or fulvous, the 

 anterior femora dilated into a broad triangular tooth, the other 

 femora less strongly dentate, claws bifid. 



Hab. Kanara, Belgaum, S. Bombay. 



Smaller and of more subquadrate shape than T. hifasciata and 

 diff'ering besides the system of coloration by the differently sculp- 

 tured thorax ; the species is probably subject to a good deal of 

 variation, those spécimens before me show already three différent 

 variations, in one of the dark fulvous varieties, the thorax is more 

 closely punctured than in the others and the sides are scarcely 

 so trigose as in the type ; at the other hand, more pale coloured 

 and somewhat smaller spécimens hâve a more sparingly punctured 

 thorax, but I believe that ail thèse forms represenî but one species. 

 Numerous spécimens. Taken during Febmary till July. 



BROMIODES n. gen. 



Body subcylindrical, not metallic, closely covered with adpres- 

 sed scaies, antennae short, the apical joints thickened, thorax sub- 



